I didn't want to live in the UAC apartements because I thought they were so far from my school (Huddinge hospital). In addition to that I wanted to experience the "real living" in Stockholm as a "Stckholmare" and not as an exchange student. I wasn't that into that every day partying eather.
So I decided to get own housing. Unfortunately it is REALLY hard to get own place in Stockholm, especially when I didn't want only a room in someone's apartement (because my boyfriend was visiting me quite often and it wouldn't have been so nice for him to be a guest for someone else). I started to find places that had rent about 4000 crones, but the last choices that I was checking after a few months were 7000-8000 crones! And still I didn't even had a chance to and look some place!
Fortunately I have quite many relatives in Stockholm. My uncle and his wife had a place 30min from my school (only one bus) and they self lived the hole time in their summer cottage. So I was lucky to live really comfortably and cheap too.
Still, if I would be going to Stockholm again, I would search own apartement even more. I would have wanted to live more center of Stockholm. The thing to get a place in Stockholm seemed to be contacts who have contacts there...